It's just another day for me. I was surprised when I looked up Friday the 13th to see the number of people who do have reactions to the date. The only time I think of 13 at all is when I purchase donuts or bagels. Is it a bakers dozen or a dozen for that price?
Dark chocolate is my favorite as well. I agree totally unadulterated chocolate is the only way to go. My husband teases me about a purist. My ice cream unadorned, my coffee black... no sweeteners or creamer for me.
"It would almost be arrogant to assume that out of countless billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars, and an increasing number of confirmed exoplanets, Earth is the only place where life has emerged." I have this argument with my mother constantly
The sage Patanjali formulated the Yoga system into eight steps for achieving the goal:
1. Avoid unrighteous behaviour--yama.
2. Follow certain moral and spiritual percepts--niyama.
3. Learn to be still in body and mind, for where motion ceases, there begins the perception of God--asana.
4. While concentrating on the state of peace, practise control of the life force in the body--pranayama.
5. When your mind is your own, that is, under your control through pranayama, and then you can give it to God-- pratyahara.
6. Then begins meditation: first, concentrate on one of God's cosmic manifestations such as love, wisdom, joy --dharana.
7. What follows in meditation is an expansion of the realization of God's infinite omnipresent nature--dhyana.
8. When the soul merges as one with God, who is everlasting, ever-conscious, ever-new Bliss, that is the goal--samadhi.
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